6 Bible Verses about Wantonness
Most Relevant Verses
But as soon as this son of yours arrives, after having wasted your means with harlots, you kill the fatted calf for him!'
You have revelled on earth and plunged into dissipation; you have fattened yourselves as for the Day of slaughter;
freights of gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purples, silk, scarlet stuff, all sorts of citron wood and ivory wares, all articles of costly wood, of bronze, of iron and of marble,
whereas the widow who plunges into dissipation is dead before ever she dies.
By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct ??19 promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).
Not many days later, the younger son sold off everything and went abroad to a distant land, where he squandered his means in loose living.
From Thematic Bible
Wantonness » Not walking in wantonness
let us live decorously as in the open light of day ??no revelry or bouts of drinking, no debauchery or sensuality, no quarrelling or jealousy.
Worldly » Pleasure results of a pleasure-seeking life » Wantonness
By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct ??19 promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).
You have revelled on earth and plunged into dissipation; you have fattened yourselves as for the Day of slaughter;
But as soon as this son of yours arrives, after having wasted your means with harlots, you kill the fatted calf for him!'